2 Boys Charged in Assault on Former New York Gov. David Paterson and Stepson

The boys, 12 and 13, were charged with gang assault, according to the police. Two adults who were involved in the attack have not been caught, the police said.

Two boys have been captured and charged in a road assault on David A. Paterson, a previous senator of Modern York, and his stepson, the police said.

One boy, who is 12, was charged with second-degree group ambush, and the other, a 13-year-old, was charged with third-degree group ambush, the police said on Saturday night. Both boys, went with by their guardians, turned themselves in to the police, concurring to Sean Darcy, a representative for Mr. Paterson.

A third individual, too a minor, went to the police but was not charged in the Friday night assault in Manhattan, concurring to an inner police report.

Mr. Paterson, 70, said at a news conference on Saturday that he was punched in the bear and a few times in the confront, whereas his stepson Anthony Sliwa, 20, was thumped to the ground and required fastens to his lower lip.

They were taken to NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell healing center for treatment and were sent domestic early Saturday morning, Mr. Darcy said.

“We trust that the youthful individuals included learn something from this terrible encounter,” Mr. Darcy included. “The senator is thankful to see the kids’ guardians hold them to account.”

Two other individuals, both grown-ups, were included in the assault, agreeing to the police. They fled on foot and have not been caught, the police said.

The previous representative was not accepted to have been focused on in the attack, a representative for the Police Office said on Saturday. Mr. Paterson is lawfully daze, but there was no sign that the assailants were mindful of this.

The ambush stemmed from a verbal contention between a few of the aggressors and Mr. Sliwa, the child of Curtis Sliwa, a previous Republican mayoral candidate and the author of the Gatekeeper Blessed messengers, an anti-crime group.

Mr. Sliwa was strolling the family puppy around 7:45 p.m. on Moment Road close East 96th Road on the Upper East Side when he saw a few of the assailants climbing a building’s fire elude, Mr. Paterson said.

Mr. Sliwa “yelled at them to come down or he was going to call the cops,” Mr. Paterson said.

“They came down, and he got into it with one of them, and that was kind of the conclusion of it,” he added.

But after Mr. Sliwa brought the canine domestic, he strolled back exterior with Mr. Paterson and experienced the bunch once more. An contention started, and minutes afterward, two grown-ups got to be included and affects the attack, Mr. Paterson said.

“Interestingly sufficient, two grown-ups interceded and really begun the fight,” he said. “The kids didn’t begin the battle. They were arguing.”

Mr. Paterson said he was able to fight off the assailant who punched him. At that point, he said, he turned around and saw Mr. Sliwa bowed over with his knee on the ground.

Mr. Paterson said he and a neighbor took Mr. Sliwa domestic and called 911.

It was vague whether the grown-ups knew the boys who were captured, or whether Mr. Sliwa knew any of the aggressors some time recently Saturday night.

Mr. Paterson, a Democrat and previous lieutenant representative of Modern York, served as representative from 2008 to 2010. He took over after it risen that his forerunner, Eliot Spitzer, was a client of a high-end prostitution ring, and Mr. Spitzer resigned.

Mr. Paterson was the to begin with Dark individual to hold the office.

His spouse, Mary Paterson, was once hitched to Curtis Sliwa.

On Saturday evening, Curtis Sliwa communicated appreciation for the “outpouring of support” taking after the assault.

“As a father, I’m wholeheartedly pleased of my child for ensuring himself and Senator Paterson amid this rough attack,” Mr. Sliwa composed on social media.